Engineering Director, Global Capital and Process Standards

Ball Corporation; Broomfield (CO); Hybrid; USD 147,200 - 215,240; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive compensation plan

Relocation assistance available

Comprehensive benefits structure

Job summary

Ball Corporation is seeking an Engineering Director for Capital and Process Standards based in Colorado. In this leadership role, you will establish industry-leading practices across manufacturing facilities, implementing standards for can-making equipment and processes. Candidates should possess a bachelor's degree in engineering and at least 10 years of engineering leadership experience.

The role includes responsibilities for overseeing capital budgeting and collaborating with key suppliers. This position allows for a hybrid work environment, emphasizing regular in-person engagements, with travel required up to 30%.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of engineering leadership experience.
• 7 years managing technology in a global manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of purchasing, legal contracts, and ISO.

Responsibilities

• Establish industry-leading practices across manufacturing facilities.
• Create and deploy standards for can making equipment and processes.
• Oversee capital budgeting and coordinate annual capital budget preparation.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Operational excellence

Technology management

Budgeting and control

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, or related field

Job description

Overview

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Position Overview

As the Engineering Director for Capital and Process Standards, you are a leader on the Global Engineering team, reporting to the Vice President of Global Engineering. You will contribute to the success of Ball by establishing industry-leading practices across Ball’s manufacturing facilities.

In this role you will create and deploy standards for the operation of can making equipment, the parts and materials used in can making, as well as processes used to plan and execute capital projects.

As the strategic leader of this group, you will drive the vision of leveraging scale across Ball’s global footprint in pursuit of operational excellence.

Your Key Areas Of Responsibility

• Technical Standards: including managing global subject matter experts with responsibility for creating and deploying process documentation for all can-making technology, direct materials (coatings), utility, power, civil construction and wastewater systems.
• Establish standards for design, installation, startup and utilization of can lines. Responsible for coordinating standard plant design with project values ranging from $200 Million (M) to $400M.
• Set standards for capital budgeting and control. Lead the governance and processes to ensure accurate cost estimation and budgetary control.
• Coordinate the preparation of annual capital budget for general operations globally (>$150M). Track and report on this project portfolio throughout the year.
• Collaborate and work closely with Capital Procurement and key suppliers of major capital equipment and services to review standard equipment specifications and enforce OEM change control.
• Oversee the system for trials and workflows that assess operational readiness of process innovations; this requires close coordination with suppliers, operations and Ball Operational Excellence organization.
• Responsible for creation of global specifications, technical standards and change management strategy for direct materials such as inside lacquers, inks and varnishes, executing the strategy from supply through application.
• Technical licensee support: Manage communications, information flows and the financial reconciliation. Direct the provision of engineering and technical support to the regional and joint venture engineering teams.
• Collaborate with Operational Excellence teams to evaluate good and best practices with responsibility of adopting and deploying as global standards.

Required Experience And Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in engineering leadership, particularly in establishing best practices for industrial processes.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience managing technology in a global manufacturing environment.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience generating business cases/ROI, performing technology selection and vendor management.
• Working knowledge of:
  • Purchasing, legal contracts, licenses, accounting, economics, depreciation, capitalization, accruals, ISO, auditing (internal and external), insurance, and contract negotiations.

Preferred Experience And Skills

• Masters degree (such as MBA).
• 7 or more years in operations of beverage can manufacturing.

Compensation & Benefits

• Expected Hiring Salary Range: $147,200 - $215,240 (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)
• This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.
• Please visit our "Total Rewards" page to learn more about Ball’s comprehensive benefits structure.
• This position is eligible to be REMOTE in the U.S., with a home base within a 50-mile radius of a major airport, due to travel requirements, but the preference would be for the successful candidate to be located in Westminster, CO.
• If based in Colorado, the on-site schedule would follow the Hybrid On-Site Work Environment, which requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site for four (4) or more days per work week (with core collaboration days of Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday).
• Travel (up to 30%) and local commute between Ball locations and other possible non-Ball locations will be required.
• Relocation (within the U.S.) may be available.

When submitting your application to Ball, we encourage you to emphasize your skills, experience, and qualifications that align with the role.

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

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Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visa, now or in the future, for this job opening.

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will remain open until filled or adjusted based on the volume of applicants.

No agencies please.